Sawant is a surname of Maratha Caste
Notable people
People with this surname include:
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Abhijeet Sawant
Abhijeet Sawant is an Indian singer, television actor, anchor and the winner of first season of ''Indian Idol''. He was the first runner up of ''Jo Jeeta Wohi Super Star'' and finished third in ''Asian Idol''.
Early life
Sawant was born on 7 ...
, singer
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Arvind Sawant, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
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Ashlesha Sawant
Ashlesha Sawant (born 24 September 1984) is an Indian television actress. She played Meera in '' Kumkum Bhagya'', Preeti Sameer Deshpande in Star Plus's soap opera ''Pyaar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyaara Pyaara'', Tara in '' Saat Phere: Salo ...
(born 24 September 1972), Indian television actress
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Deepak Sawant, politician
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Govind Sawant, field hockey player
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Kamlesh Sawant, actor
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Kshama Sawant, U.S. economics professor and politician
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Kunal Sawant, football goalkeeper
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Nirmiti Sawant
Nirmiti Sawant is a Marathi actress, who mainly acts in Marathi films, television and dramas. She became popular after her performance in daily TV soap ''Kumari Gangubai Non-Matric'' along with Pandharinath Kamble. This was followed by a ser ...
, actress
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P. B. Sawant, Indian Supreme Court judge
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Pandharinath Sawant, journalist
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Pooja Sawant
Pooja Sawant (born 25 January 1990) is an Indian dancer, performer, film actress. She works in Marathi and Hindi movies. She is best known for her role in the 2015 blockbuster hit ''Dagadi Chawl''.
Career
Before starting her career in films, ...
, actress
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Prajakta Sawant
Prajakta Sawant (born 28th October, 1992) is a badminton player from India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and ...
, badminton player
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Pramod Sawant
Pramod Sawant (born 24 April 1973) is an Indian politician and the 11th and current Chief Minister of Goa.
Sawant represents the Sanquelim constituency in the Goa Legislative Assembly and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
He is an a ...
, Chief Minister of Goa
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Rakhi Sawant
Rakhi Sawant (born Neeru Bheda; 25 November 1978) is an Indian dancer, model, actress and television talk show host, who has appeared in many Hindi and a few Kannada, Marathi, Odia, Telugu and Tamil films and was a contestant on the first ...
, Indian film actress, talk show host
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Shivaji Sawant
Shivaji Sawant (31 August 1940 – 18 September 2002) was an Indian novelist in the Marathi language. He is known as Mrutyunjaykaar (meaning Author of ''Mrutyunjay'') for writing the famous Marathi novel - ''Mrutyunjay''. He was the first Marathi ...
, writer
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Sudhir Sawant, politician, lawyer and brigadier in Indian Army
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Tejaswini Sawant, shooter
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Trupti Sawant, politician
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Vishram Sawant
Vishram Shivram Sawant is an Indian film director. He made his directorial debut with '' D'', which is about the meteoric rise of a fictional underworld don, ''Deshu'' (played by Randeep Hooda), which appears to be loosely based upon Dawood Ibr ...
, author
See also
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Maratha
The Marathi people ( Marathi: मराठी लोक) or Marathis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are indigenous to Maharashtra in western India. They natively speak Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language. Maharashtra was formed as ...
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Maratha Empire
The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern Indian confederation that came to dominate much of the Indian subcontinent in the 18th century. Maratha rule formally began in 1674 with the coronation of Sh ...
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Maratha clan system
The Maratha clan system (also referred to as Shahannava Kuli Marathas, 96 Kuli Marathas or 96K), refers to the network of 96 clans of families and essentially their surnames, within the Maratha caste of India. The Marathas primarily reside in th ...
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Bhonsle
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List of Maratha dynasties and states
This is a list of Maratha dynasties and Maratha princely states.
Historical Maratha dynasties with original clans spread globally
† - States annexed by the British East India Company
Maratha Princely States
The Marathas ruled much of ...
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Sawantwadi
Sawantwadi an aesthetic land of artists, is an integral part of the Konkan region which is in the mid-western coast of India.
The western coast of India since 1510 A.D. has assumed great importance in Indian history and history of internationa ...
References
External links
''Siva Chhatrapati''
''The castes and tribes of H.E.H. the Nizam's dominions''
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Maratha clans